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NBI arrests City garbage men, drivers


National Bureau of Investigation in Manila arrested 10 Dumaguete garbage collectors and drivers at the City dumpsite in barangay Candau-ay. One of the arresting officers informed the employees of their rights and informed them that they were being arrested for illegally dumping garbage in a dumpsite that had been ordered closed, and that they had dumped garbage near the Banica river.


Agents from the


The city employees were brought to the NBI


office where they were detained for a few hours. Mayor Felipe Remollo


assured the ar rested employees that the City will defend them and convinced the NBI to release the city employees to him on recognizance, while the case is going on. They were eventually released shortly past 8 pm Thursday.


Remollo, meanwhile, wondered why of all the places in the Philippines which got dumpsite closure orders, the NBI had to target Dumaguete. “It’s true that there has been a


closure order since the time of Mayor Agustin Perdices in 2006. But in the absence of an alternative dumpsite, we continued using the dumpsite, although with mitigation measures, such as garbage segregation, use of deodorizers and decomposition hasteners.” Dumaguete dumps more than 40 tons of garbage daily.


The mayor continued that under his leadership, the City had come up with a Safe Closure and Rehabilitation Plan which was approved by the DENR. The DENR also


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promised to give the city Php 12.5 million for this project. Under this plan, the closure of the open dumpsite will be done gradually. DENR cannot order the abrupt closure of the dumpsite because there is no available facility to dump the garbage.


“Our authorities seem misinformed about what is happening in Dumaguete. They do not know we have been given a permit. But why Dumaguete? There might be unseen hands that have prompted the officials of the NBI or DENR,” he said. (IFBP)


Banica bridge building starts


has started the construction of a multimillion-peso bridge to replace a spillway that was damaged by Typhoon Pablo in late 2012. Traffic along Colon Street


The city government here


has been closed to give way to the construction of a full span concrete bridge at the back of Foundation University. It will connect the villages of Taclobo and Bagacay.


City Legal Officer Manuel Arbon (standing), chair of the City Bids and Awards Committee, fields clarifications from prospective bidders on matters relating to the public bidding of the P43.6 million concrete full span bridge to be built to replace the overflow in Taclobo that connects to Bagacay. The second pre-bid conference is slated on Tuesday while the opening of bids is on Oct. 22. (Photo by PIO)


Forum tackles financial literacy


The need for families to become financially stable took center stage in a forum that tackled issues that Filipino families confront nowadays.


Speaking in a Kapihan Forum in observance of the National Family Week with the theme, “Tungo sa maginhawa, matatag, at panatag na pamilyang Pilipino,” local Family Week Celebration Chairperson George Gilvero Jr. said to achieve the vision to provide a comfortable life


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13,000 voters’ names deleted


The Commission on Elections (Comelec) here has deleted some 13,000 registered voters from its official list for their failure to vote in two succeeding elections.


Agoncillo, Dumaguete’s election officer, disclosed in a telephone interview on Monday that the number of registered voters in this capital city might drop despite the ongoing registration of voters that will officially end at 5 p.m.


Lawyer Gildu


for failure to vote in 2 polls today.


According to him, the number of registered voters for the May 13 midterm elections was pegged at a little more than 89,100. Since the start of the registration period last Aug.1, the Comelec here had already received some 4,300 applications and on this last day, Agoncillo said he is expecting around 1,000 or more.


The last day of registration was held at


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The Colon Bridge project is locally funded with some PHP20 million.


Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo earlier said the contractor, Joint Venture of Jaime Ching Enterprises and Supreme Mega Structure Builders, Inc., must complete the project within 299 calendar days, “barring any fortuitous event”.


Meanwhile, the city government has scheduled the bidding for the BIR Bridge project on Oct. 10, with a budget of PHP43.6 million.


SU natl writers’ workshop The Silliman University (SU) National Writers Workshop, the oldest creative writing program in Asia, is now accepting applications for the 59th SU National Writers Workshop to be held from April 27 to May 8, 2020 at the SU Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village and the SU campus. This Writers Workshop is offering 10 fellowships to promising writers in the Philippines who want to have a chance to hone their craft and refine their style. Fellows will be provided housing, a modest stipend, and a subsidy to partially defray the costs of their transportation. To be considered, applicants should submit manuscripts


on or before December 6, 2019. Extension to the deadline will not be made. All manuscripts should comply with the instructions stated below (failure to do so will automatically eliminate their entries). Applicants for Fiction and Creative Nonfiction fellowships should submit three to four (3-4) entries. Applicants for Poetry fellowships should submit a suite of seven to ten (7-10) poems. Applicants for Drama fellowships should submit at least one (1) One-Act Play. Each fiction, creative nonfiction, or drama manuscript should not be more than 20 pages, double-spaced. We encourage you to stay well below the 20 pages. Aside from manuscripts in Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Drama that should be written in English, the Workshop will also be accepting manuscripts for Balak (poetry in Binisaya) and Sugilanon (short story in Binisaya). Applicants should submit a suite of seven to ten (7-10) balak entries with their English translations, or three to four (3-4) sugilanon entries with their English translations. Manuscripts should be submitted in five (5) hard copies. They should be computerized in MS Word, double-spaced, on 8.5 x 11 inches bond paper, with approximately one-inch margin on all sides. Please indicate the category (FICTION, CREATIVE NONFICTION, POETRY, ONE-ACT DRAMA, BALAK, or SUGILANON) immediately under the title. The page number must be typed consecutively (e.g., 1 of 30, 2 of 30, and so on) at the center of the bottom margin of each page. The font should be Book Antiqua or Palatino, and the font size should be 12. The applicant’s real name and address must appear


only in the official application form and the certification of originality of works, and must not appear on the manuscripts. Manuscripts should be accompanied by the official application form, a notarized certification of originality of works, and at least one letter of recommendation from a literature professor or an established writer. All requirements must be complete at the time of submission.


Department of English and Literature, attention Dr. Warlito Caturay Jr., Workshop Coordinator, 1/F Katipunan Hall, Silliman University, 6200 Dumaguete City. For inquiries, email us at nww@su.edu.ph or call 035-422-6002 loc. 350. (KMC Infomedia)


SU now a wildlife sanctuary


The full span concrete bridge will replace the existing spillway connecting the villages of Bagacay and Batinguel passing through the road where the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) office is located, hence the name of the bridge.


The BIR spillway was also damaged during the onslaught of Typhoon Pablo although it remains


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Silliman University is now a wildlife sanctuary. This after the Board of Trustees (BOT) agreed during their meeting last Aug. 27 that the SU campus is not just a bird sanctuary but also a wildlife sanctuary, hence, collecting or harming wildlife on campus is strictly prohibited. Dr. Angel C. Alcala, BOT vice chair and head of Silliman University Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management (SUAKCREM), said the BOT has agreed that it is SU’s responsibility to protect and conserve wildlife as an institution that has been active in conducting research and advocacy on biodiversity, which includes wildlife species, since 1941.


Alcala said another reason why SU should protect wildlife is because populations of wildlife in tropical rain forests and mangrove forests in the country have been declining, but some forest-dwelling biodiversity species are able to adapt to and exist in human-dominated communities and altered or marginal forest habitats. “Studies on Philippine fauna and flora have documented the decline of populations of wildlife in the tropical rain forests and mangrove forests of the country, where as much as 80% of wildlife species are naturally found. These forests have been reduced to fragments and, in general, are not able to support the ecological and biological requirements of wildlife,” said Alcala. There are 69 species of trees, 44 species of recruited trees


The Kapihan sa PIA forum tackles issues confronting the Filipino family in celebration of National Family Week. Seated are (l-r) are PIA Provincial Coordinator Jenny Tilos, Dumaguete City Family Week Celebration Committee Chair George Gilvero, Pastor Francisco Abella of First Evangelical Church, and Philippine Mental Health Association (PMHA)-Negros Oriental Executive Director Jude Mae Piñero. (PIA7-NegOr)


and community associates, 62 species of birds, 32 species of mammals and 27 species of reptiles and amphibians in SU, based on a SUAKCREM study of trees and animals on the SU campus, which includes the A.Y. Reyes Zoological & Botanical Garden and mangrove garden at the Dr. Angel C. Alcala Environment and Marine Science Laboratories. “Trees have been included (in the study) because they serve as habitats of birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals, and they also provide food for the animals,” added Alcala.


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The BOT’s declaration of SU as a wildlife sanctuary also covers SU’s other sites, such as the SU Farm at the College of Agriculture and SU Center for Tropical Conservation Studies (Centrop) extension site in Palinpinon, Valencia. Alcala clarified that there are no poisonous reptiles on


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